Argentina between the Great Powers, 1939–46

226 Pages·1989·12.31 MB·English

by  Guido di Tella

ST ANTONY'S/MACMILLAN SERIES
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ISLAM
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MEDICINE
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Guido di Tella ARGENTINA UNDER PERÓ,N 1973-76
Guido di Tella and Rudiger Dornbusch (editors) THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
OF ARGENTINA, 1946-83
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ARGENTINA, 1880-1946
Guido di Tella and D. Cameron Watt (editors) ARGENTINA BETWEEN THE
GREAT POWERS, 1939-46
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Argentina between the
Great Powers, 1939-46
Edited by
Guido di Tella
University of Buenos Aires and
Associate Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford
and
D. Cameron Watt
Stevenson Professor of International History
University of London
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Argentina between the great powers, 1939-46.
1. Argentina. Foreign relations, 1939-1946
I. di Tella, Guido, 1931- II. Watt, D.
Cameron, 1928- III. St Antony's College
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Contents
List of Maps VII
List of Contributors VIII
Introduction X
D. Cameron Watt
1 Anglo-American Relations, 1939-46: A British
View 1
Alec Campbell
2 'The Juggler': Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Anglo-American Competition in Latin America 18
Warren F. Kimball
3 The Origins of Misunderstanding: United
States-Argentine Relations, 1900-40 34
Joseph S. Tulchin
4 US Political Destabilisation and Economic
Boycott of Argentina during the 1940s 56
Carlos Escude
5 Foreign and Domestic Policy in Argentina during
the Second World War 77
Mario Rapoport
Comment: Paul B. Goodwin, Jr. 106
6 Disorderly Succession: Great Britain, the United
States and the 'Nazi Menace' in Argentina,
1938-47 111
Ronald C. Newton
Comment: H.S. Ferns 135
7 The Braden Campaign and Anglo-American
Relations in Argentina, 1945-6 137
Callum A. MacDonald
8 The United States and Argentina in Brazil'~
Wartime Foreign Policy, 1939-45 158
Stanley E. Hilton
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vi Contents
9 Argentina Between the Great Powers, 1939-46:
A Revisionist Summing-up 181
Guido di Tel/a
10 A Northern Summing-up 199
John Major
Index 207
List of Maps
2.1 Axis proximity to strategic war materials 24
2.2 The 'German' map 25
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List of the Contributors
D. Cameron Watt is Stevenson Professor of International History
at the University of London.
Alec Campbell is Professor of American History, University of
Birmingham.
Guido di Tella is Associate Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford,
and Professor of Economics at the University of Buenos Aires and
the Catholic University of Argentina.
Carlos Escude is Professor of International Relations, University of
Belgrano (Argentina) and Senior Researcher, Instituto Torcuato di
Tella, Buenos Aires.
U.S. Ferns is Emeritus Professor of Political Science, University of
Birmingham.
Paul B. Goodwin, Jr. is Director of the Center for Latin American
and Caribbean Studies at the University of Connecticut.
Stanley E. Hilton is Professor of History and Director, Latin
American Studies, at Louisiana State University.
Warren F. Kimball is Professor of International History at the
Newark Faculty of Arts and Science of Rutgers University.
Callum A. MacDonald is Senior Lecturer at the Joint School of
Comparative American Studies, University of Warwick.
John Major is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Hull.
Ronald C. Newton is Professor, Latein-Amerikanische Geschichte
at the Simon Fraser University.
Mario Rapoport is Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de
Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas, Buenos Aires, and
Associate Professor, University of Buenos Aires.
Vlll
List of the Contributors ix
Joseph S. Tulchin is Professor of History at the University of
North Carolina.